Lower Teesdale · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcode| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 94, Merlin Drive, Barnard Castle, DL12 8FL | 19 June 2025 | £437,495 |
| 63, Merlin Drive, Barnard Castle, DL12 8FL | 10 June 2025 | £249,995 |
| 54, Merlin Drive, Barnard Castle, DL12 8FL | 6 June 2025 | £499,995 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
Green Lane Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Teesdale School and Sixth Form
Academy sponsor led
Barnard Castle School
Other independent school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
914 residents
671 residents
1,261 residents
1,979 residents
1,985 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
1
within 5 km
VICTORIA ROAD, BARNARD CASTLE, DL12 8HT
ODS code A83046
1.0 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Darlington Road-Hower House
BCT · Barnard Castle
Darlington Road-Hower House
BCT · Barnard Castle
Shaw Bank
BCT · Barnard Castle
Shaw Bank
BCT · Barnard Castle
Darlington Road
BCT · Barnard Castle
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 067D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,650 of 33,755
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
The five-year median is £394,995 from 45 recorded sales in DL12 8FL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for County Durham is £138,148 in June 2026, up 7.0% year on year.
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Green Lane Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 695 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
350 published events cover 12 months, averaging 29.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 135 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.